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By fflike Haikin
Battalion Sports Editor
Texas Longhorns Possess Much Weaker Team
Than of Past Years; Aggie Hitting Improves
That this baseball conference
will be a mad dogfight before it
is over is clearly indicated by the
early league standings of the*
teams. Not one team, with the ex
ception of Rice, can claim a spot
less record, and the Owls haven’t
as yet played a game.
T.C.U. and S.M.U. split a cou
ple of hectic games, while the
Texas Aggies put a deep dent in
Texas’ championship hopefe by
grabbing a 4-1 decision.
Incidentally, speaking of that
particular game, it looks as if
Uncle Billy Disch, the former
Longhorn coach was right when
he made the statement that Texas
would have one of the. weakest
teams in its history. Against the
Aggies Tuesday afternoon, it was
a different team that strode up to
the plate and attempted to hit
the ball. No longer were there re
sounding balls bouncing off the
left or center field fence. No long
er were there pitchers who could
keep the hitters from getting any
sound base knocks. The team has
changed quite a bit, and should
it win half of its games, it would
be a definite surprise.
Of course there is still the pos
sibility that the other teams in
the conference are just as weak,
but that remains to be seen.
In their past three games, the
Aggies have looked far better than
their opponents. Even in their los
ing Baylor game the boys wearing
the Maroon and White were a
much smoother looking outfit than
their Waco foes.
Their hitting problem was par
tially solved against Texas, but
still Coach Lil Dimmitt will have
to find some hitting power some
where in the outfield. The infield
ers, the catchers, and the pitchers
won’t always be able to carry the
brunt of the attack, and that’s
where the outfield may be needed.
Sports Squibs From Here and There; Labus
Pulls Muscle to Add Blok to Track Squad
Emerick Labus, specialist in the
100 and 200 yard dashes pulled a
muscle in his leg recently to add
more dismay to the already in
jury-stricken tracksters . . . Labus
also served as anchor man in most
of Coach Dough Rollins’ relay
events . . . Previously, Jimmy
Knight, a relay star for the thin
ly clads, suffered a similar injury
... A note from Charlie Babcock,
who is, incidentally attending
night school at the University of
Houston, states that Coach Cecil
Griggs, Rice Owl baseball nine is
looking great in its workouts . . .
‘‘The infield has been especially
looking good the past few days,”
Babcock states . . . Among the
leading hitters on the team was
Bert Selman, who was seen pol
ing that ball far and wide . . .
Coach Art Adamson and two of
his ace tankers, Bobby Taylor and
Bob Cowling, were unable to make
the trip to Cambridge Massachus
etts for the National Swimming
Tournament held at Harvard due
unforseen circumstances . . . Could
be that Danny Green, ace Dallas
Athletic Club swimmer who’s beat
en Taylor a few times, is entered
in the meet . . . John Scoggin and
Les Peden lead the Aggies in runs
batted in with 6 apiece . . . Scog
gin, however, also leads the club
in the most errors made with 6
so far . . . Four of these have been
overthrows . . . Cullen Rogers
raised his average in the Texas
game to .167 ... A few more hits
and he’ll be hitting his weight.
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KKK Plans Second
Yearly Cheese Sale
The Kream and Kow Klub is
sponsoring its second annual
cheese sale and exhibit which will
be held at the creamery April 4.
The sale is to help raise funds for
their two judging teams.
The cheese sale last Ag Day was
a popular event, so it is repeated
this year at the request of the
many persons who are interested
in quality cheese and who have
expressed their desire to assist the
judging teams sponsored by the
Kream and Kow Klub.
Practically all of the American
varieties of cheese will be on hand,
although it is impossible to secure
any of the foreign types.
Texas Relays Scheduled Today
Ags Hit Road for SMU, TCU Tilts
Cadets Face
Ponies Monday;
Play Frogs Thurs
Coach Lil Dimmitt’s baseball
nine, elated over their recent 4-1
triumph over the Texas Long
horns, will take off for Dallas Sun
day afternoon in preparation for
their two game series with the
S. M.U. Mustangs Monday and
Tuesday.
Following that series, the Ag
gies go to Fort Worth to meet the
T. C.U. Horned Frogs in a one
game stand Thursday afternoon.
S.M.U. and T.C.U. Split
The Mustangs and the Frogs, in
cidentally, split a two game series
this past week ,both being wild
affairs. S.M.U. won the first one,
13-9, in a ten-inning event with
the Frogs triumphant the follow
ing day in a hectic 17-16 fracas.
So far the Aggies have won
five of their seven starts dropping
only to Oklahoma university and
Baylor while winning two from
Sheppard Field, one each from Ok
lahoma, Baylor and Texas.
Stevenson to Pitch Twice
Charlie Stevenson, no longer
overstuffed, will be Coach Dim-
(See CADET FACE, Page 4)
Murals in War Time!
Intramurals Move Into First Place With
Strong Emphasis on Personal Participation
By Dub Oxford
Intramurals are important.
They have been increasing in
importance and scope since the
war as exemplified by the fact
that the Army and Navy have now
hired many physical education in
structors to train the members of
our armed forces. The formal pro
gram of calisthenics is being car
ried out per usual, but there is a
strong emphasis o;n intramurlaj
athletics.
Defense Work
Physical fitness is the basis of
all defense work. It is every man’s
obligation to be as physically fit
as possible. Physical fitness does
not only mean exercise every day,
but it also takes into consideration
nutrition, immunization against
disease, rest, and attitude.
It is every Aggie’s obligation to
himself to get in some form of
exercise every day. This exercise
does not mean supervised games,
but some form of physical exer
tion. This may be accomplished
either by going to the gym or by
merely playing a game.
Builder of Men
Athletics has been a builder of
men for centuries, and it is from
that source that the United States
is drawing its fine fighting men.
However, the athletics one us
ually thinks about is not the ath
letics I am speaking of. I am not
speaking of inter-collegiate ath
letics; those organizations are too
few. Intramural athletics has been
the builder of the men of the Unit
ed States.
Intramurals On Rise
Intramurals are usually design
ed for the fellows who are not
good enough for the varsity, but
who, nevertheless, take part in
sports. Since the war intramurals
have been on the upward scale
with all schools making a greater
effort to conduct a better and
larger program of their now weak
intramurals.
Here at A. & M., intramurals
have been running at full blast,
and there is really no place for
an increase unless increased facili
ties are obtained.
Intramural athletics have al
ways been popular at A. & M. As
Aggieland is the home of the larg
est male college in the United
States, the men in the Intramural
Department have an enormous job
in taking care of the thousands of
sports loving Aggies on the cam
pus. Regardless of the versatility
of the man, he is given a chance
to do what he can in the line of
sports. While many of the intra
mural participants are not polish
ed athletes, they are doing their
part for Uncle Sam by keeping
themselves in the “pink of condi
tion.”
The next time you think of ath
letics, don’t think merely of inter
collegiate sports activities. Give a
little thought to the intramural
program. The program here at A.
& M. houses many more students
than does inter-collegiate athletics
and has a much larger following.
And don’t forgei^-YOU GOTTA
BE FIT TO FIGHT.
BATTALION
MARCH 28, 1942
Page 3
Class A Basketball Champs
INTRAMDRALS
By
DUB OXFORD
Above are pictured the Class Intramural basketball champions—
A Field Artillery. Shown left to right are “Soup” Ogdee, A1
Ramirez, Bob Weinberger, Kenny Moore, K. E. Schmidt, and
Ivan Schwing. —Photo by Howard Berry
Stephenson’s Pitching and Scoggin’s
Hitting Give Ags 4-1 Win Over TU Tuesday
Led by the bounding bat of John
Scoggin and the hurling master
piece of Charlie Stevenson, the
Texas Aggies pounded out a 4-1
victory over the Texas Longhorns
Get the Newest in Both Styles on
VICTOR and BIUFBIRD RECORDS
ROYAL FLUSH—Harry James
SLEEPY LAGOON—Harry James
LET’S HAVE ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE—
Glenn Miller
MISS YOU—Dinah Shore
HASWELL’S
here Tuesday afternoon. The game
was played in an intermittent driz
zle throughout, and for a time,
there was a question of whether
the game would be played or not.
Stevenson, never in trouble but
in two innings, duplicated his great
performance against Baylor as he
held the Steers to seven scattered
hits. Some great fielding by his
hits saved him possibly a run or
two, but nevertheless his fast
curve ball baffled Texas through
out the game. Cecil Ballow, Aggie
shortstop, played a great defen
sive game, coming up with almost
miraculous stops.
The Aggies lost no time in hit
ting the offerings of Jim Collins,
Texas’ starting pitcher. Scoggin
led off with a single in the second
inning. He went to second as Col
lins’ attempt to catch him off first
was dropped by Speedy Houpt.
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Sam Porter followed with a sin
gle to score Scoggin.
With one down in the third,
Rogers was hit by the pitcher. He
was advanced to second by Glass’
grounder and score on Scoggin’s
second single. The Ags added an
other run in the fourth on Les
Peden’s single, a wild pitch, and
an error by the third baseman.
Texas, however, threatened ser
iously in the fourth inning. Houpt
opened with a single to center.
Harkins followed with a single to
left. O’Reagan struck out. Rand-
erson then slapped a grounder past
second which was seemingly head
ed for right field. However, Ira
Glass made a nice stab to stop the
blow and keep the bases loaded.
Stevenson then tightened up and
made Pinch-hitter Pierce put up
to Peden and Grell to ground out
for the last out.
The Longhorns finally broke
Stevenson’s scoreless streak at 16
innings by scoring in the seventh.
With one down, Dumke walked.
Grell struck out, but Hector sing
led to send the Texas’ pitcher to
second base. Grady Hatton then
followed with a line single to
center to score Dumke. Stone pop
ped up to Porter.
John Scoggin’s line homer over
the left center field wall accounted
f or the final Aggie run in the
ughth inning.
Soggin with three hits was top
Intramural boxing is receiving
a hearty welcome by the cadets.
The big gym is usually filled to
capacity every
night there is a
match and if one
listens to the
roars and whis
tles that float
out from De-
Ware Field
house, one might
almost believe
Texas A. & M.
Oxford owns another
Madison Square Garden.
The boxing matches are very
fast and interesting. Some of the
fighters use “science” but the
most of them merely put on the
big gloves and swing—with the
hope of hitting their opponent.
Some of the wild blows connect
and some of them don’t. But when
they do, oh boy!
An interesting study in human
nature and tactics occurred last
night. A boxer in blue trunks was
“whaling the tar” out of his white
trunked opponent. And white-
trunks could take it. But he took
enough of it. Stepping back with
his arms to his side as if he were
going to “throw in the towel,” the
white-trunked waited for the blue
trunked boxer. As was expected,
ol’ blue-trunks lowered his guard.
Then Wham! Wham! White-trunks
let fly with two flooring haymak
ers and they connected. And I do
mean connected.
Needless to say, blue-trunks was
gently picked up from the floor of
the ring to shake hands with the
winner of the match, white-trunks.
Volleyball Finals
These past afternoons have seen
class A volleyball players in one-
eighth finals playoff matches. A
C.W.S. beat B Infantry 2-0 in a
man for the Ags, followed closely
by Porter and Peden with two
apiece. The seven Texas’ blows
were evenly divided among the
Longhorn team.
Aggies (4)
Ballow, ss
AB R H E
4 0 0 0
Rogers, If ; 3 110
Glass, 2b 4 0 0 1
Scoggin, c 4 2 3 0
Porter, lb 4 0 2 1
Peden, 3b 4 12 0
Stevenson, p 4 0 10
Black, cf 3 0 0 0
Smith, rf 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 33 4 9 2
Score by innings:
Texas 000 000 100—1 7 3
A&M 011 100 010—4 9 2
Texas (1) AB R H E
Grell, cf ..6 0 0 0
Hestor, 3b, rf 4 0 12
Hatton, ss 4 0 10
Stone, 2b 4 0 10
Houpt, lb 4 Oil
Harkins, rf, If 4 0 10
Reeves, If 2 0 10
O’Reagan, c 2 0 0 0
Randerson, c, 3b 4 0 10
Collins, p 1 0 0 0
♦Pierce 1 0 0 0
Dumke, p 0 10 0
Tankersley, p 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 36 17 3
♦Pierce batted for Collins in 4th
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LOUPOT’S
definitely one-sided game. The
Cheni boys were just the best play
ers and moved faster. F Engineers
swamped E Infantry 2-0 and A In
fantry whipped E Field Artillery
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
Class A:
C C.W.S., Swimming
A Replacement Center, Soft-
ball
D Coast Artillery, Ping
Pong.
G Infantry, Ping Pong
Artillery Band, Ping Pong
B Coast Artillery, Ping
Pong
2-0. After these games, the win
ners will move on into a higher
bracket and finally a champion
will be decided.
Boxers
The following is a list of the
men boxing Thursday night. These
fellows listed are Aggies who real
ly put on a good show. The win
ners are bold faced.
Class A
LANE (A CAC)—Barton (D
Inf)
HARRINGTON (F-F.F.)—Dees
(B C.W.S.)
KING (C CAC)—Meredith (A
Inf)
GALEWSKY (E INF)—Duree
(2 CHQ)
HARVEY (I F.A.) — Cox (G
CAC)
RUSSELL (HQ. CAC)—Hilt-
pold (B Sig.)
SULLIVAN (B CAC)—Dorsey
(E RC)
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Austin To
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Nat’l Meet
Bucek and Strong
Fish Team Expected
To Shine for Cadets
The Texas Aggie tracksters face
what will probably be their stiff-
est competition of the current sea
son when they compete in the fif
teenth annual Texas Relays be
ing held in Austin this week-end.
Coach J. W. “Dough” Rollins left
yesterday morning with sixteen
Aggie trackmen who will compete
in the meet.
Outstanding Event
The Texas Relays are one of
the country’s outstanding track
and field events, and attract
schools from all over the country
to take part. Several of the out
standing performers in college
competition are expected to be on
hand for the event. Preliminary’s
were run off yesterday, with the
feature attraction scheduled to
take place today.
The meet is expected to be a
fight between the Aggies and the
Longhorns for the first place, with
plenty of fireworks on tap in all
departments. The Aggies have
met the Longhorns twice this sea
son, at the Border Olympics held
at Laredo and the Fort Worth Fat
Stock Show and Exposition meet.
In both of these previous en
counters the Longhorns triumphed
but each time by a very small
margin, and the Aggies hope to
turn the tables this week-end.
Bucek Faces Stiff Competition
Captain Roy Bucek of the Ag
gies, high point man of last year’s
meet, will be facing some stiff
competition in the 120 yard high
hurdles in the university class.
Against him are arrayed Ralph
Tate of Oklahoma A. & M., and
Doug Jacques of Texas, both of
whom are excellent performers in
this event.
Don Boydston of Oklahoma A.
& M., who holds the meet record
in the high jump of 6 feet 7 7/8
inches, set in last years relays and
will be on hand for this event to
compete with Pete Watkins and
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